Council on American Islamic Relations, press release, 28
August 1995. The American Muslim organizations are
concerned over the arrest of Imam Jamil Abdullah
Al-Amin. The manner of his arrest for aggravated assault
and the events that have transpired since the arrest
indicate that there is apparently much more to this
incident than has been revealed so far. Several questions
about the handling of this case.

By Peter Slevin, Washington Post, 18 March
2000. Police were searching Atlanta neighborhoods
yesterday for Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin—better known as
1960s black militant H. Rap Brown—after he allegedly
shot and killed a sheriff's deputy who tried to
arrest him on a theft charge.

Pan-African News Wire, 18 March 2000. Al-Amin associates
and residents of the local community in Atlanta where he
served as a religous leader and operator of a local
grocery store, have expressed extreme doubts about the
police claims involving the veteran activist

From African People's Socialist Party, 18 March
2000. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap
Brown, is currently being put on trial by the media and
city government of Atlanta, Georgia, for his political
beliefs, actions and for his continuing legacy as a
defender of black rights and dignity.

By Elaine Brown, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, 25 March 2000. As former
chairman of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown is
alarmed that the party, defunct now for more than a
decade, continues to be bastardized in the American press
and by law enforcement. Worse, now the party's name
is resurrected to denigrate and condemn one of our finest
brothers, the former H. Rap Brown.

By Dianne Mathiowetz, Workers World, 30
March 2000. At an appearance in Federal Court on March 21,
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin—formerly known as H. Rap
Brown—declared that he is innocent of the charges
that he killed a sheriff and wounded a second deputy in
Fulton County, Ga., on March 16.

Radio Havana Cuba—News Update, 08 January 2002. In
the US, a former black militant who renounced violence and
became a Muslim cleric is due to face trial this week in a
murder case that according to some observers will
highlight the racial and religious divisions in American
society.